Quotes About Absalom

#1. She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to him. 'O Absalom, my Absalom! Come, come, we will not entertain such a thought. God himself would not urge it upon a mother.

Theodore Dreiser

#2. I have never seen the Lord God. But I have seen Absalom alive in the tree.

William H Gass

#3. O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man's mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

Orson Scott Card

#4. Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Andrew Jackson

#5. When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

Jesmyn Ward

#6. This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

Paul McCartney

#7. Ah, Mr Compson said, Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?

William Faulkner

#8. Yet, fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well, and not my master's debtor.

William Shakespeare

#9. Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.

Steve Ilg

#10. Love is not something you plan, it just happens.

Laura Hillman

#11. was just dying to speak with him.

Absalom Milton

#12. The truth is that you have to fight your way through brutal, ugly realities in order to find that moment of clarity, that one slant of light or shift in emotion that yields unexpected art. That's just as true for life as it is for crime scene photography.

Maggie Ybarra